Your Development and Rewards

Your Development

We are committed to providing the professional opportunities and support required to help you achieve your personal development goals.

Our 'Individual Performance Review' process will focus on agreeing a personal plan between you and your Manager, so that from your early days you can benefit from continuous professional feedback, guidance and support on how to develop your skills and your career.

We also encourage people to form support and mentoring networks to share knowledge and experience, benefitting their personal development and to enhance individual and team contribution.

Learning

We want top performing teams so we help and encourage our people to develop their skills and advance in the Company. We create an environment where you can develop to your full potential.

As an employee of Chaucer the following career development resources are available:

• Our Learning and Development Team are dedicated to provide ongoing support with your development (from induction, through to technical training and personal skills)
• We have links with professional external training providers that can also provide you with specialist training 
• All staff are included within our competency based appraisal system which forms the basis for individual development plans 
• We arrange for guest speakers from the insurance sector to give presentations on various topics and issues that are relevant to the business
  

Your Qualifications

Chaucer Insurance fully encourages and supports employees who wish to undertake job-related professional study. Our reward scheme for professional qualifications is well within the top quartile in the Lloyd's market.

• ACII / DipCII / CertCI I/ LLMIT / FIT sponsored insurance exams
• CIMA / ACCA / AAT sponsored accountancy and finance exams
• CIPD sponsored human resource exams
  

Your Rewards

Employees at Chaucer enjoy a comprehensive benefits package which is continuously reviewed against the profile of our people and against the external environment. Having recently initiated a benchmarking survey in the Lloyd’s market we remain confident of our competitiveness and as an organisation we remain committed to rewarding our employees for their efforts.

In addition to offering competitive basic salaries, we offer the following standard benefits package: 

• Holidays – from 22 days to a maximum of 25 days
• Contributory Pension Scheme 
• Private Medical Insurance 
• Permanent Health Insurance 
• Life cover 
• Share Option Scheme 
• All Employee Share Option Plan 
• Sports and Social Club 
• Great working environment, car valeting and a dry cleaning service
• Free parking and subsidised Café are also available on-site
  

Our Sports and Social Club

The Chaucer Insurance Sports & Social Club was formed in 2004 to arrange all sports and social activities for Chaucer employees.  Run by volunteers from different areas of the business, the club arranges sporting tournaments, horticultural shows, theatre nights, wine & wisdom quiz nights and Christmas entertainment.

The club has an extensive range of interests and where possible includes partners of employees in the organised events. No event is too large or too small. Chaucer Insurance actively supports the club with a generous annual donation to the club’s finances.